When you are setting up a connection to an external data source, Spotfire needs to map the data types in the data source to data types in Spotfire. See below for a list of the different data type mappings applicable when working with an IBM Netezza database.
IBM Netezza Database Type |
Spotfire Data Type |
Supported |
BYTEINT |
Integer |
Yes |
SMALLINT |
Integer |
Yes |
INTEGER |
Integer |
Yes |
REAL |
SingleReal |
Yes |
FLOAT |
SingleReal |
Yes |
DOUBLE |
Real |
Yes |
BIGINT |
LongInteger |
Yes |
NUMERIC(p,s), DECIMAL(p, s) |
When p <= 9 and s = 0: Integer |
Yes |
BOOLEAN |
Boolean |
Yes |
CHAR |
String |
Yes |
NCHAR |
String |
Yes |
NVARCHAR |
String |
Yes |
VARCHAR |
String |
Yes |
DATE |
Date |
Yes |
TIME |
Time |
Yes |
TIMESTAMP |
DateTime |
Yes |
Any other data types are not supported.